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Title: Highways and Byways in Surrey

Author: Eric Parker

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HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN SURREY

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MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED

LONDON. BOMBAY. CALCUTTA. MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

NEW YORK. BOSTON. CHICAGO. ATLANTA. SAN FRANCISCO

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.

TORONTO

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[Illustration: _High Street, Guildford._]

HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN SURREY

by

ERIC PARKER

With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson

MacMillan and Co., Limited
St. Martin's Street, London
1909

Richard Clay and Sons, Limited,
Bread Street Hill, E.C., and
Bungay, Suffolk.

First Edition, 1908
Reprinted, 1909

PREFACE

A preface ought not to contain an apology. But mine must contain at
least an explanation, if only of omissions. The Highways and Byways of
Surrey belong not to one county or to one period of time, but to two
different ages, and, to-day, to two counties. London has made the
difference. What was Surrey country a hundred years ago has been
gathered into the network of London streets, and belongs, in the mind
and on the map, to London. Almost for